Poster abstracts

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Number Presenter Title PI
1Sudeshi Madushani Abedeera
Title not published online Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena
3Ibraheem Alshareedah
Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition of Protein-RNA Complexes: Droplets, Micelles and Vesicles Priya R. Banerjee
4Sri Appasamy
Conformational changes in ribosomal RNA 3D Motifs correlated with ribosome functional state Neocles Leontis
5Sushant Bangru
Title not published online Auinash Kalsotra
6Raeven Bastock
Identification of temperature responsive post-transcriptional regulatory sRNAs in Staphylococcus aureus Erin Murphy Ronan Carroll
7Isobel Bowles
Identification of a tRNA-specific function for the tRNA methyltransferase Trm10 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Jane Jackman
8Audrey Bui
Title not published online Xiao-Ning Zhang
9Morgan Chandler
Cationic amphiphilic co-polymers as carriers of RNA nanoparticles for controlled gene silencing, immunostimulation, and biodistribution Kirill Afonin
10Karen Cone
Funding Opportunities at the National Science Foundation Karen Cone
11Robert Connacher
New insights into mRNA regulation by the Drosophila TRIM-NHL protein Brat Aaron Goldstrohm
71Zac Dewald
A hepatocellular Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 model demonstrates an increased susceptibility towards anesthetics, drug induced liver injury and fatty liver disease in mice Auinash Kalsotra
12Catherine Douds
Semi-empirical in vivo RNA structure prediction by motif constraining Phil Bevilacqua
13Ashutosh Dubey
Trypanosome RNA Editing Substrate Binding Complex integrity and function depends on the upstream action of RESC10 Laurie Read
14Quinn Eberhard
RNA - protein coupled alignment families (RPfam) Neocles Leontis
15Emily Erdmann
Title not published online Heather Hundley
17Peter Forstmeier
Computational discovery and validation of novel functional RNAs in SARS-CoV-2 Phil Bevilacqua
18Keshav Gc
Methyltransferase enzyme RsmC act as an RNA chaperone during bacterial ribosome biogenesis Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena
19Hunter Gill
RAZOR: a Unified Database for Respiratory Virus PCR Primers Sarath Chandra Janga
20Samantha Grecco
The effect of the small RNA RyhB on the structure of its mRNA targets Phil Bevilacqua
21Dwight Hall
SARS-CoV-2 Diversity and Phylogeny in Indiana COVID-19 Patients Sarath Chandra Janga
22Doaa Hassan Salem
Penguin: Predicting RNA Pseudouridine Sites in Nanopore Sequencing Data Sarath Janga
23Hannah Hertz
The Piwi/piRNA pathway promotes fertility by regulating expression of protein-coding genes Wen Tang
24Anna Hu
Looking into the internal coordination within the ASAP complex for gene regulation in Arabidopsis Xiao-Ning Zhang
25Rabiul Islam
Expression and in vivo characterization of a proline-rich antimicrobial peptide that targets 23S ribosomal RNA Christine Chow
27Jan Naseer Kaur
The role of Gis2 in fine tuning gene regulation under hydrogen peroxide and fluconazole stress in C. neoformans John Panepinto
28Taranpreet Kaur
RNA Regulates the Morphology of Multiphasic Biomolecular Condensates Priya R. Banerjee
29Jonathan P. Kitzrow
Impact of transcription start site heterogeneity on HIV-1 5′UTR structure and conformational dynamics Karin Musier-Forsyth
30Corey Knowles
Ccr4 is required for translational repression during stress John Panepinto
31Aiswarya Krishnamohan
Divalent metal-ion tunable catalytic flexibility of the lariat-debranching enzyme, Dbr1 Jonathan Staley
32Geneva LaForce
Understanding the role of CLP1 in mammalian mRNA transcription and cleavage Ashleigh Schaffer
33Justin Mabin
Human spliceosomal snRNA sequence variants generate variant spliceosomes David Brow and Peter Lewis
34Ananya Mahapatra
Deducing the role of ADR-2 in neural immune gene regulation in C. elegans Heather Hundley
35Amartya Mishra
Kinetoplast RNA Editing Helicase 1 plays a distinct role in RNA editing profile of mitochondrial transcripts in Trypanosoma brucei Laurie Read
36Chaitali Misra
Title not published online Auinash Kalsotra
37Mohamed Rushdhi Mohamed Rauff
Title not published online Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena
38Matias Montes
Therapeutic potential of splicing: SRSF2 binding modulation in MDM2 alternative splicing Dawn Chandler
39Priyanka Mukherjee
Understanding the cellular and molecular functions of ADAR3 Heather Hundley
40Sanjana Nallagatla
The use of RNA secondary and tertiary structure prediction software for remote undergraduate laboratory and research during pandemic distance learning Joshua E. Sokoloski PhD
41Mariah Novak
Repressing Ago2 mRNA translation by Trim71 maintains pluripotency through inhibiting let-7 microRNAs Wenqian Hu
42Thomas Ossevoort
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4B levels are negatively associated with metastatic potential and immune evasion in murine breast cancer models Sarah Walker
43Benjamin Pastore
Quality control of piRNAs mediated by nontemplated nucleotide addition in C. elegans Wen Tang
44Chathuri Pathirage
SHAPE probing of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase initiation complex reveals RNA flexibility changes adjacent to the primer binding site Karin Musier-Forsyth
45Ian Price
Title not published online Wen Tang
46Seyoung Ree
Amino acid composition in cytosolic and mitochondrial ribosomal proteins Craig Zirbel
47Mary Anne Refaei
Human Lysyl tRNA Synthetase Interaction with Nucleic Acid Hairpins Professor Pearl Tsang
48Laura Ritchey
Hidden Breaks in Rice Chloroplast rRNA Revealed by Structure-seq2 Laura Ritchey
49Lewis Rolband
Using RNA nanoring scaffolds to modulate the fluorescent properties of silver nanoclusters Kirill Afonin
50Alex Runyon
Using the Bacillus subtilis thrS T-box riboswitch to determine the importance of conserved T-box elements Tina Henkin
51Siara Sandwith
The effect of DHX36/G4R1 on the transcription of an abnormal DNA sequence linked to ALS Philip Smaldino
52Tristan Sanford
Enzymatic synthesis of pseudouridine Mina Sumita
53Manu Sanjeev
Title not published online Guramrit Singh
54David Sarpong
Characterization of a putative toxin-antitoxin locus in Shigella flexneri Erin Murphy
55MaKenzie Scarpitti
Biochemical dissection of translational control RBPs that are mutated in neurological disorders Michael Kearse
56Claire Schaef
: Discovering the role of SAP18 in transcriptional regulation by creating a SAP18 knockdown line. Xiao-Ning Zhang
58Elan Shatoff
Evidence for autoregulation of bS21 in Flavobacteria. Ralf Bundschuh
59Jalal Siddiqui
Title not published online Wayne Miles
60Hailee Sorensen
RNA Deamination as a Mechanism to Regulate Gene Expression in Staphylococcus aureus Ronan Carroll
61Mansi Srivastava
Transcriptome-wide high-throughput mapping of protein-RNA occupancy profiles using POP-seq Sarath Chandra Janga
62Rajneesh Srivastava
Role of SARS-CoV-2 in Altering the RNA-Binding Protein and miRNA-Directed Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Humans Sarath Chandra Janga
63Halle Stump
Title not published online Heather Hundley
64Jayesh Kumar Sundaram
Investigating the regulatory consequences of maternal RNA clearance during early embryonic development Lee Miler
65Priti Thakur
Identification of the amino acids associated with the novel ribonuclease activity of Cusativin via protein engineering and LC-MS Balasubrahmanyam Addepalli
66Elizabeth Tidwell
Investigation of RNA-ligand interaction using a multidisciplinary approach Markos Koutmos
67Katie Toohill
Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein 1 coordinates the proliferative and inflammatory responses of hepatocytes during toxin-induced liver injury and regeneration Auinash Kalsotra
68Jason Underwood
Putting the gene in genomes: long read transcriptomics from gene annotation to single cell biology Jason Underwood
69Ullas Valiya Chembazhi
Cellular plasticity balances the metabolic and proliferation dynamics of a regenerating liver Auinash Kalsotra
70Chinna Venkata
Inhibition of eIF5A hypusination attenuates fibroblast activation and cardiac fibrosis Peng Yao
72Akila Venkataramany
Title not published online Dawn Chandler
73Zoe Weiss
Evolution of Ribozyme Ligase Sequence Space Under Selection Pressures Jack Szostak
74Cassia Williams-Rogers
RNA binding proteins, upstream open reading frames, and translational control of human gene expression Joel McManus
75Jian Wu
Biased Pol II fidelity contributes to conservation of functional domains in the Potato spindle tuber viroid genome Dave Bisaro
76Jiangbin Wu
FAM210A Deficiency Causes Dilated Cardiomyopathy through Persistent Activation of Integrated Stress Response Peng Yao
77Jiansong Xu
The czcD (NiCo) riboswitch responds to iron(II) Joseph Cotruvo
78Boyoon Yang
Molecular mechanisms that regulate A-to-I RNA Editing in vivo Heather Hundley
79Rachel Zapf
The small RNA Teg41 is a multifunctional regulator of virulence and stress response in Staphylococcus aureus Ronan Carroll
80Bo Zhang
Title not published online Auinash Kalsotra
81Wen Zhang
Artificial mirror-image RNA in Basic Research and Therapeutic Design Zhang Wen
82Wenyuan Zhou
Spatiotemporal control of CRISPR/Cas9 function in cells and zebrafish using light‐activated guide RNA Alexander Deiters